The Global Gender gap index in 2012 is led by 5 European countries. The United States comes in 22nd place with a score of 0.7373, which is a decrease from 17th in 2011.
China’s score is 0.6853 and fell 8 spots. Among the three countries, India is the only country to have improved from 113 to 105 with a score of 0.6011.